Former West Bengal of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was on Wednesday discharged from a hospital in Kolkata, where he was admitted on July 29 with lower respiratory tract infection and Type 2 respiratory failure.
The 79-year-old veteran communist leader will be provided medical care at his Palm Avenue residence. Family members of the former Chief Minister, including his wife Meera, and leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) were present in the hospital when he was discharged